CRAIG SWAN says football is our national sport and the announcement about talks over the possible Scotland v England fixture has sent the country into meltdown.

NEWS just in – the Lawn Tennis Association have announced that moles have dug up the courts at Wimbledon and The Championship is being switched from SW19.

Andy Murray will now defend his crown at G74 on the red blaes courts at Whitemoss in East Kilbride.

In other news, Bernie Ecclestone has also confirmed that F1 will add a race to this season’s schedule and the drivers championship decider will go ahead at ScotKart in Cambuslang.

Well let’s be honest, after hearing that England’s football team could be heading to Glasgow in November those announcements wouldn’t really surprise you, would they?

As if the summer of sport in Scotland in 2014 wasn’t good enough, we’ve just had it extended through autumn and into the start of the winter.

The Commonwealth Games in Glasgow is a massive event.

Even so, it will be overshadowed by the Ryder Cup at Gleneagles.

Sure the Games is bigger in terms of number and competitors than the golf but how many of the events on show are actually supported and played in this country on a grand scale?

Go out to the shop for a paper and 20 B&H on a Saturday morning and you won’t see table tennis bats strapped to car roof-racks or weightlifting bars in the back seat.

You will, however, see men, women and children across the land in their golf gear heading out for a medal or a bounce game with their clubs in the boot.

Golf is absolutely massive in Scotland. We invented it.

And, no disrespect to the athletes, there will be a lot more people in this country interested in whether Rory McIlroy can eye down Tiger Woods in Perthshire in September than if a man can jump nine metres into a giant sandpit.

Football is our national sport and, from the moment the announcement was made about the talks over the fixture, the country is in meltdown again about Scotland v England.

Are there medals at stake? No. Is there are a gold trophy at stake? No.

There is more than that. This is the greatest battle in the history of the game and this is about honour.

Scotland v England at dominoes is a big deal.

But as we saw at Wembley last August, Scotland against England on a fitba park is absolutely off the scale.

Apart from a free 24-hour bevvy session in Hyde Park, what else could convince 20,000 Scottish folk to head for the English capital on a midweek night?

And if you think that was big, wait until November.

England coming to Glasgow would capture the imagination like nothing else. For the first time in 15 years the Auld Enemy will be trooping north beyond Hadrian’s Wall to face the kilted hordes.

As an added bonus, Hampden could still be cleaning up from the Commonwealth Games so the game may be hosted at Celtic Park letting an extra 10,000 fans in to see it.

Right enough, you’d need to glue Celtic Park, Hampden and Ibrox together to provide the capacity needed for the amount of people who will want to see this battle.

It was hard to imagine that the Scottish sporting summer could have got even better.

Unbelievably, the SFA and their English counterparts are trying to do it.